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coccosphere Biol.|ˈkɒkəʊsfɪə(r)|
[f. Gr. κόκκο-ς grain, etc. + σϕαῖρα globe.]
A spherical mass of associated coccoliths found in deep-sea dredging or floating at the surface of the ocean.
1868Huxley Lay Serm. (1870) 205 Bodies similar to these ‘coccoliths’ were aggregated together into spheroids which he [Dr. Wallich] termed ‘coccospheres’. 1869G. C. Wallich in Sci. Opin. 10 Feb. 271/1. |